The rural communities of the Sacred Valley are home to Cusco’s living culture. If you’d like to be part of this living culture, the villagers of the valley are ready to share their labors with you and allow you to experience for yourself their daily lives. 

 

In Pumahuanca, for example, you can harvest the enormous Urubamba corn variety from Inca terraces; in Maras you can collect salt the way they did thousands of years ago; and in Chincheros you can weave on Inca looms using ancestral techniques recovered by the renowned local weaver Nilda Callañaupa.

 

In some villages you can even spend the night!

 

Rural community tourism offers a new way of experiencing Peru. What are  you waiting for? Come and try something different! 
 

Visit to the communities of the Sacred Valley Village of Percca
Tourist with the residents of Lamay
Peasant from the Lamay community
Residents of the Lamay community
Tourists making handicrafts in the Sacred Valley
Residents of the Lamay community
Tourists and dancers in the Sacred Valley

How to get to this experience?

Route 1

Route 2

Lima-Cusco

1 h 15 min approximately

Lima-Cusco

26 h approximately

Harvest of potatoes in communities of the Sacred Valley

General information

Times

Dependent on the operator

Price

Dependent on the operator

Essentials

Trekking gear, sunglasses, camera, warm clothing.

Altitude

3 335 meters above sea level

Climate

Min. 1 ℃ / Max. 20 ℃